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I never had ambitions to see how rich I could get. I got a lot of contemporaries that that's their ambition, and I don't know very many of them that are happy.

~Carroll Shelby

Topics: Ambition Contemporaries Could Get Got Had Happy How Know Lot Many Never Rich See Them Very

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I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent; I had a pretty unhappy home life.

~Carroll Shelby

Topics: Children Good Good Parent Had Home Home Life Life Much Parent Pretty Time Unhappy Very

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I love horsepower.

~Carroll Shelby

Topics: Love I Love

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I've got cattle on 4,000 acres about 100 miles east of Dallas, but I've also got another 65-acre ranch where I raise American miniature horses.

~Carroll Shelby

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In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

~Carroll Shelby

Topics: Ask Car First First Thing He Horse Lee Make Me Mule Out Race Said Sports The First Thing Thing Want Work You I Want You

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The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.

~Carroll Shelby

Topics: American Better Build California Call Car Could Engine Europeans First First Time Job Like Little Moved Performance Reason Stupid Thought Time

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My proudest moments are beating Ferrari for the World Championship in 1965, and working with Ford to win Le Mans in 1966 and 1967.

~Carroll Shelby

Topics: Beating Championship Ferrari Ford Mans Moments Proudest Win Working World World Championship

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I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict.

~Carroll Shelby

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I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

~Carroll Shelby

Topics: Against Anything Built Car Competition Design Designer Desire End End Result Know Leave Me People Put Result Together Who Work Working

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Every morning I wake up with new ideas.

~Carroll Shelby

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Designer

Born: January 11th, 1923

Died: May 10th, 2012

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